What an amazing conclusion to the No Longer Human story. The past four episodes have really been storytelling at its finest. This episode yet again pushes the characters into an entirely different direction, and it’s really been character-development after character-development for the entire story.

This episode fast-forwards a number of years. So the lead character? He got married to the girl with the red umbrella. His friend? He has grown up a lot. He’s no longer the punk who drags the lead character into the wrong business, but instead has decided to join the army, leaving his wild years behind.

At first sight, the lead character seems saved right now. He has stopped drinking and fooling around with women thanks to his new wife. The seemingly limitless amount of trust she has for him really helped him get himself together. Or so it seems. I’m not sure whether she got raped or whether she was fooling around with someone behind his back, but nevertheless, their balance gets broken abruptly when he finds out.

But even before that, it becomes clear that even though he may have left his old habits behind, he still hasn’t fully healed. Especially when he finds out that his father died, he doesn’t care in the bit, and it becomes painfully clear that he’s still living inside a fantasy world, refusing to simply grow up because his profession as an artist and storyteller doesn’t require him to do so. Eventually however, he breaks down and takes an overdose of some sort of strange type of pills. Again, he survives. But barely.

The part that impressed me the most comes next. Despite how the guy has broken down, and proven that he’s a huge failure as a human, the two women he lived with still don’t mind. What they see is a guy who definitely has problems, but despite that is an incredibly nice guy. Even though they probably know nothing about him, yet want to be with him again, that was so heart-warming.

Okay, so No Longer Human was amazing. What’s next? The rest of the series is going to be filled with three more stories of two episodes, and two of only one. Their short length is either a blessing or a curse, but let’s see what they can do with their limited airtime. I really like the set-up of random stories though: you’ll never be able what to expect, but the writers are totally free in what they can do with it, or in this case which stories they can adapt. This is another reason why this series is superior to Kuchuu Buranko: those random stories all were written by the same guy, based on the same formula. With Aoi Bungaku however, this series is promising to become incredibly varied.Rating: *** (Awesome)

nice adaptation that kept a lot of atmosphere from the novel. noticed that they changed some of the plot points though, but i guess what’s important is that the “feeling” from the novel is portrayed accurately. i actually felt the novel was fairly more depressing than these episodes, but still, not bad!!

Next ones Sakurano mori….(Under the Full Bloom of Forest of Cherry Blossom…is it?)
next next one I belive is Kokoro indeed, one of the most…well I guess I could almost say this is the most well-known representative literature in Japan.
Anyway I’m kinda freaked out by the last one, Hell Screen….no way no way no way

Um. His friend didn’t really ‘grow up’. Him saying that he’s going to kill people around the world shows that he’s just finding his own way to cope with the world and IMO that is really neither here nor there. That guy has his own share of problems and Youzo just happens to be stuck to his own problems. At least his friend found a way to run into a whole another set of problems, quite literally. Probably into his death. lol

Great 4 episodes…the main guy is really screwed and I feel sorry for him. I knew that in episode 3, the girl with the red umbrella was his light of hope and she did save him in episode 4 (for a while).

I would say that the girl he married was raped because she was nervous when she announced that his boss was there and she cried when the rape happened. Since her husband promised that he’ll make money for the both of them, she didn’t want to destroy his confidence and tell him that she has been raped just so his mangas can sell.

Poor girl…the main guy could’ve forgiven her. It wasn’t like she put herself out to be raped. She was probably threatened or blackmailed by the boss. She even asked for her husband to save her and he could have attacked the boss or stand up for her but he didn’t. He became shattered by the sight of the rape and ran off. I guess he has been too broken to save her any way.

I totally love this kind of story telling and the music has been awesome and so emotional. In the end, the main became corrupted with his monster self until he died.

I liked the beginning how the narrator or voice for the main character relates the anime to the real literature…interesting information.

great short. one complaint though, the ending made me unsatisfied with the whole show. in the end, it’s a series about the life, death and despair. I already come across a lot of those stuff
not like it’s were bad or anything. I just hoping there some sort of a twist at the end. sadly it still the same

for now this still the best show this fall. yeah I did say I like Armed Librarians better, but that just for it potential

I finished the novel the day before this episode came out, and overall I found the adaptation to be amazing. Yozo’s misogyny (if one can call it that) was downplayed a little in the adaptation, though. The novel talks a lot about how he sees women as inferiors/enemies, and therefore prefers ones that are either harmless and virginal (Yoshiko) or easy to control (Shizuko). Kind of an ass, but then again, he is a huge mess.

I belive that the guy was trying to rape her
because she was crying and besides look at the possition of her legs or the whole body. she was in shock
but if you trying to belive that she was cheating on her husband because of her eye contact when she was coming downstairs I’m pretty sure that it was because the guy were harassing her .
and I think by the way she stay still on the floor after the guy ran away that makes me belive that it was the first time that the guy try to do something to her
well that is from my own point of view

Instead of the rape scene can anyone explain the ending?(From reading countless blogs a i have found that the ending in the novel was more clear.But in the anime either
1)He lost it and died from drug overdose
2)He lost it and we see him hallucinate in his own world from the drugs and lived

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(Sunday, Aug 2. 2015 09:47 PM)

@Masky: Are you talking about me?
Because if you are, you completely misread all I wrote…
But if that’s the case I don’t feel like explaining myself considering you probably don’t want to listen anyway…

Masky

(Sunday, Aug 2. 2015 02:09 PM)

Geez, people really make odd excuses when defending stuff they like ._.
…I feel like thats probably hypocritical comment coming from me since I’ve probably done that too, but I think I usually go with attitude of “Hey, you’d probably not like it anyway, but I think you are wrong about that thing” xD

Emma

(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 09:47 PM)

@Aidan: I would recommend downloading it rather than browser-playing it as my browser kept crashing when I tried to.
Its quite short but it gives a great teaser and introduction to the game, that gets me excited for it.

Emma

(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 09:45 PM)

@Aidan: Mangagamer have released the demo for kara no shoujo 2, they’ve also confirmed a release for Autumn. Its probably better to call this demo more of a prologue/compliment to the game with content exclusive to it.
Demo/prologue here: http://mangagamer.org/kns2/

AidanAK47

(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 02:14 PM)

@invicableGod, Yep that comment was spam. Should have got rid of it first time I saw it.

Wicked

(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 01:10 AM)

well, this place changed a lot. Gotta say, I’m not a fan of how they adapted GATE into an anime. It feels too decompressed. Manga did a better job at keeping the tension taut

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(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 01:08 AM)

Also I am not the blog, I’m just a poster… I really hope you have enough sense to tell the difference…

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(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 01:07 AM)

@Emo: you’re saying all that like that doesn’t fit your description to a T. Kinda sad actually…
Well I guess now at least I gave you one more thing to get angry about so your day seems just a bit more active than your last.

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(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 01:03 AM)

I don’t think people are really expected to read it from the start anymore. I mean that’s probably why it stays popular in Japan considering people would have to be in their 20s at least to keep up from the start without reading hundreds of chapters just to keep up.

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(Saturday, Aug 1. 2015 01:00 AM)

Well admittly comics don’t seem to be that easy to follow (don’t actually read comics despite liking a lot of DC and marvel media), but anyway it’s not like the other long-running shounens in terms of continuity and more like the long-running comedies like say Kochikoma.

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